I predicted it would be a 3 point game decided on who got the last field goal. Philly got lucky. Doesn't matter either way since the Saints will eat them alive and the Bears would have taken out the Giants easily.

I don't know why people are saying the saints are a lock next week... I don't care if the eagles were lucky to beat an 8-8 team at home by the skin of their teeth (which they were)... next week's game has 04 chargers-versus-jets written ALL OVER IT.

I am looking forward to the NFC Championship game that is a rematch of 2001 when the Eagleths come back to Soldier Field. The Bears owe them thumbthing. Unfortunately for Garthia, he'th going to get the brunt of it.

/yeah, I know. Another week has to be played first//Predicting: Bears, Eagles wins. If that wasn't obvious

Because New Orleans beat Philly already, and that's when the Saints were still gelling and Philadelphia was 4-1 with McNabb kicking ass all over everyone, prompting a wave of "this is the year" sentiments, and now the Saints have been kicking ass and Philadelphia's still really really really weak at defending the run, something New Orleans has a few good weapons at doing?

robsul82Because New Orleans beat Philly already, and that's when the Saints were still gelling and Philadelphia was 4-1 with McNabb kicking ass all over everyone, prompting a wave of "this is the year" sentiments, and now the Saints have been kicking ass and Philadelphia's still really really really weak at defending the run, something New Orleans has a few good weapons at doing?

you see that. I see the young team with virtually no playoff experience (save their QB, who has one whole game), the rookie head coach, and the burdens of high expectations that come with being the favorite to get to the super bowl... versus the team with the boatload of playoff experience, one of the game's great coaches and the sense of "playing with house money."

"Hail to the Redskins!Hail Victory!Braves on the Warpath,Fight for Ol' Dixie!Run or pass or score we want alot more!Beat em' swamp 'em touchdown, let the points soar!Fight on, fight on, 'til you have wonSons of Wash-ing-ton Rah! Rah! Rah!Hail to the Redskins!Hail Victory!Braves on the Warpath,Fight for Ol' Dixie!"

Looks like I missed some good football this weekend. It would have been priceless to be in a bar full of Dallas fans when Romo muffed the snap. That's what happens when you start believing your own press, I guess.

It's funny that the weakest team he thought made the playoffs won (although he claims they didn't deserve to win) while his team, the actual weakest team, lost.

And Dallas was the second weakest. In fact, I'd say the seedings in the NFC were exactly correct. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say after all the crazy upsets over the regular season, the postseason is going to be completely vanilla and the higher seed will always win.

/except Chicago//go Hawks!///and if Chicago can't beat Seattle with their random people who live in Seattle playing as their secondary, then Rex is who we thought he is. Crown his ass!

"Sorry I couldn't account for a botched snap catch by Tony Romo. Seahawks should have lost, they certainly played worse than the cowboys, but c'est la vie."

Yup, gaining more yards than a team and stopping them over and over again means you played worse than them. Dallas was lucky to be in it, thanks to a KR for a TD. their offense couldn't do shiat against the people Seattle brought in from the street to play defense. And Dallas got burned on defense despite two of our top receivers being injured in the game.

More yards + more TOP + more points = worse? good logic.

//even had they made the FG, Josh Brown would've kicked the game winner for Seattle ;)

When the difference in points is one (and would have been negative 2 if not for a freak occurance) and the difference in yards is fairly low, I don't think you can trot those out as proof of much.

Barring a few horrible mistakes, I thought the Cowboys outplayed the Seahawks (as did almost every comentator I saw or heard during play)... but not necessarily by that much.

And I don't think I ever said the Seahawks were teh worst team in the playoffs. I said they played the worst during the regular season. They lost a whopping four games to under .500 teams. Did any other playoff team do close to that? Giants lost to none, Eagles lost to one, Cowboys lost to two....

If they weren't in the worst division in the NFL, they wouldn't have made it to the playoffs at all.